College of the Canyons security incidents leaves students questioning campus safety

Safety typically isn't an issue many students are concerned with when attending class on campus, but after an email sent out from College of the Canyons highlighting two recent incidents that may have changed. COC Student Phoebe Melikidse shared, "I

The Autumn of Terror hits Santa Clarita in a new virtual haunted house experience

This Halloween, guests can visit Mountasia to experience "Wax House: The Legend of Jack The Ripper," a new virtual reality haunted house experience.
The virtual haunted house sends players back in time to the Autumn of Terror, set in 1888 Whitechapel,

Minor league, major themes: an interview with BRAMPTON'S OWN director Michael Doneger

Brampton's Own is the new film from director Michael Doneger, out October 19.
Coming to terms with your own personal failures is a universal theme that defines the inner workings of many works of art, but it’s

Five parks in the city of Santa Clarita finished updates and renovations over the summer to prepare for the Fall adult softball league.
Central Park, Canyon Country Park, Bouquet Canyon Park, Bridgeport Park and Newhall Park were the parks chosen by

Smartphone apps like Grubhub, Postmates and Uber Eats are changing the face of food delivery services by involving a contracted courier between both the customer and the restaurant, but Telly’s, a Santa Clarita Valley restaurant, feels that these delivery services would

M*A*S*H actor Michael Farrell and writer George Shea hosted a video presentation of a one-act play performance of Dr. Keeling's Curve at COC earlier this semester.
The video was shown in Hasley Hall 101, presented by The Institute of Ethics, Law and

Choosing a Halloween costume can be hard to decide. Here are some tips on the hottest trends and some secrets on what to buy and where to get it.
With social media and the constant tide of changing trends, there are

Audiences were chilled like cold water when Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster Jaws was released.
Jaws is a horror film that reflects on a bloody summer of shark attacks surrounding Amity Island.
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By the end of the film, it is a fight to

This week, the team at Cougar Review decided to re-watch their favorite movies that they haven’t seen since childhood.
We didn’t realize until today they were all produced by Amblin Entertainment.
The Little Rascals is one of those films, which follows the

Former COC vice president of communications, John McElwain, dies at 70

John McElwain, 70, died Friday, surrounded by his wife and two daughters, after a two-year battle with cancer.
He is remembered for his leadership, professionalism and mentorship, according to his former colleagues.
McElwain worked for COC's public information office in various positions

This summer, movie theater audiences were teleported into blockbuster metropolises like San Francisco in Ant-Man and the Wasp and a destroyed dinosaur theme park in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. However, in Bo Burnham’s directorial debut, you travel back to the

Opinion: No friends but the mountains, the atrocities of the Yazidi Genocide

By Brandon Balayan
Genocide is a heinous crime against humanity that brings death and displacement to its victims. Many things come to mind when talking about genocide. Whether it be deportations, forced conversion to a religion, or the systematic murder of

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There's a lot to love about Hotel Artemis, which makes it so incredibly frustrating that it's not an easy film to love as a whole.
Hotel Artemis is centered around an admittedly cool premise; here, that premise is that there is a hotel/hospital

By Dr. Kenneth W. Kizer and Cástulo de la Rocha
The two of us are among dozens of commencement speakers at California’s colleges and universities this year who are calling out the importance of having health insurance coverage in our remarks

Overcrowding in community colleges increases - can College of the Canyons keep up?

By Christina Arias
Overwhelmed. Overloaded. Overcrowded.
College students face a number of stresses during their years in school. They worry about tuition costs, buying textbooks, rent, and figuring out how to get to campus. Students experience the immense pressure of going to

Morning strikes once again, and as the saying goes, “another day, another dollar." But for most students, it would be another assignment rather than another dollar. It is now time again to commute to everyone’s favorite place, College of the

By Ashley Bautista
Looking for assistance with the college experience at COC?
Resources for Individual Success in Education is a new program at College of the Canyons that has partnered with Fostering Youth Independence, a company intended to help support foster youth, and

On each floor of Mentry Hall and Hasley Hall, small digital counters slowly tick upwards into the tens of thousands. The figures displayed on seven of them as of this morning added up to 236,373.
That is the number of

By Jonathan Hurtado
On the southern end of College of the Canyons' Valencia Campus is a building with simplistic architectural characteristics surrounded by bright green grass and a handful of trees. The sun shines brightly on this hidden gem as rabbits

Beads of sweat filled her forehead as she put on her Cinderella glass heels and walked out of the dressing room.
The bar is filled with family members taking advantage of free drinks for the first hour.
Juliet Porter is only five

It’s a Monday morning at Medtronics Inc., a medical device company.
Roman Delgado and Akram El-Nady, two employees at the company, are eagerly waiting until lunch time when the two can finally discuss their true passion:
Their business that they

Why some students come from far and wide to come to College of the Canyons

“It was a pretty hard decision to make, honestly,” says Myles Banks as he curls his fingers around the steering wheel of his ‘64 Volkswagen Beetle, headed north on I-5 towards Valencia. “Other than gas, the drive isn’t that bad,

By James Gend
It’s like wearing six layers of clothing in a hot, steamy desert in the middle of summer. Light flashing all around you, with only two narrow peep holes barely aligning with your vision and a set of mechanically

It’s a quarter to five; the door opens and they go straight to their side table. Not one, not two, not even three — but four teacher’s assistants.
How did one professor, Ron Mita, get so lucky to have all that

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Parents, high school students, brothers and sisters all joined together at the Santa Clarita Aquatics Center. Some were gossiping in their beach chairs, a few were wandering aimlessly and others were intensively watching for their kid to be next.
It was

“Learning the tools of the trade, making connections, learning how to become a multimedia journalist is what inspires me to chase my dreams,” said a motivated Tanner Nava.
Many future journalists have the drive to make it to “big time” media

“You just got better.”
These words are painted on the wall in huge black font above the door.
The phrase is meant to be the last thing you see as you exit an intense training session with
Mike Yudin.
Perhaps the words will inspire

The dying grass crunches under your feet as you walk around the empty park to a picnic table. You look across the park and see the glistening of the water off in the distance.
You walk across the beaten cement path

By: Tristen Zahreddine
The arena seats are filled with thousands of fans and another several hundred thousand are glued to their TV sets and smartphones.
The competitors approach their seats in front of a digital screen. Their nerves appear frayed. Their hands

This summer, movie theater audiences were teleported into blockbuster metropolises like San Francisco in Ant-Man and the Wasp and a destroyed dinosaur theme park in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. However,